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Posted on April 9, 2018

The amnesia of our age: the lonely passion of Brian Moore

When I became aware of “serious” literature in the late 80s/early 90s, Brian Moore was quite a substantial figure – repeatedly nominated for the Booker Prize, his books made into…

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Posted on April 7, 2018April 7, 2018

From “Sleep”, Haruki Murakami

It’ been a while since I blogged about the literature of sleep which was formerly a recurrent theme here. So here is the opening of a Haruki Murakami story call…

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Posted on January 18, 2018August 30, 2018

Reading on the bus: a literary bus conductor from Arnold Bax’s Farewell My Youth.

(edit August 30th – (edit 30th August 2018 – (edit 30th August 2018 – for further extracts from Arnold Bax’s “Farewell My Youth”, see here on the forgotten and despised man of…

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Posted on September 23, 2017September 24, 2017

Versions of Alcman’s “Sleep”

At First Known When Lost, Stephen Pentz collects some versions of fragmentary lines by the Spartan lyric poem Alcman. This fragment was used by Edgar Allan Poe for the epigraph…

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Posted on August 10, 2017August 11, 2017

Nabokov and Freud

From Strong Opinions, Interview: 6 “Strong Opinions” is a collection of interviews with Nabokov. I have blogged before about rediscovering my love of Nabokov in recent years, following falling a…

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